it's a long drive through a beautiful but dangerous landscape. china and pakistan have been building this road for some 10 years now but it's not clear what purpose it will serve a few empty trucks hardly seem to justify it it's a very tenuous strand on the new silk road. the karakoram mountains also seem to prefer their isolation falling rocks often damage the road which then has to be repaired. in january 2010. a massive landslide killed 20 people in the village of out of body and it blocked the loser river creating a large lake a section of the karakoram highway ended up under rocks and water. from the highway